viewcount

English

Etymology

From view +‎ count.

Noun

viewcount (plural viewcounts)

1. The number of views.
   • 2007, Connecting People Using Google™ For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, page 19:

     High viewcounts come from videos that are compelling, not contrived.

   • 2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 114:

     In the corner of YouTube, I spot the viewcount on the bottom right: 14,727,216 views.

   • 2012, Zak Ruvalcaba, Mike Murach, Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery: Training & Reference, Fresno, Calif.: Mike Murach & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 443:

     orderby Method used to order entries. Options are relevance, published, rating, and viewcount.

   • 2012, Kiri Miller, Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (The Oxford Music/Media Series), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231:

     Because viewcounts wield so much power in search rankings, they are a contentious subject among YouTube uploaders.

   • 2012 December 3, Paul McNamara, “Taking ‘Internet answers’ for granted”, in Network World, volume 29, number 21, page 34:

     Another 10 seconds on Google brought me this answer from a YouTube employee via Quora: “YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means. […]”

   • 2014, Steve Sammartino, The Great Fragmentation and Why the Future of Business Is Small, Wiley, →ISBN, page 226:

     A viewcount that’s frozen at 300 is one of the great success indicators of a project being launched through YouTube. It means it’s being viewed so often, and shared so frequently, that YouTube has to check that nothing dodgy is happening.

   • 2016, Vikki Blake, Wesley Copeland, Jason Fanelli, Barry Keating, Carrie Mok, Dominic Reseigh-Lincoln, John Robertson, Edward Smith, Gaming Live!: Your Guide to Video Game Livestreaming, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 57:

     Although he doesn’t have the same viewcount as some of the other players on this list, EVO 2013 runner-up Robert “ICWobbles” Wright is worth checking out.